313 MYDAIDJE. 



251. Mydas carmichaeli, Brim. 



My das carmichaeli, Branetti, Rec. Incl. Mas. ix, p. 266 (1913). 

 cf . Head black, irons slightly wider than one-third of the 

 head, somewhat wrinkled, with a moderate amount of blackish- 

 brown pubescence ; a small tuft of greyish hairs on each side of 

 the mouth-opening. Proboscis rather less than the height of the 

 head, dark brown ; palpi slender, black, reaching as far forward 

 as the vertical line drawn through the antennal prominence, which 

 latter is small and black. Antennae normal, black, bare, about as 

 long as from the vertex to the tip of the proboscis. Occiput 

 black, shortly pubescent; a little grey tomentum behind the eye- 

 border. Thorax wholly dull velvet-black, with very short 

 sparse black pubescence, which is a little longer below the wings. 



Fig. 23. Mydas carmichaeli, Brun., <$ . 



Abdomen shining black, with a slight indigo-blue tinge and very 

 short pubescence ; in <5 subcylindrical, as long as head and thorax 

 together and barely as wide; in a little broader and longer and 

 much more bulky. The tf genitalia consist of a hollow triangular 

 piece, hairy above, with a deep keel, a pair of dark reddish-brown, 

 nearly bare, moderately long, narrow, finger-like claspers (only 

 one joint being visible, the organs being somewhat withdrawn), 

 and a curved ventral plate, with black pubescence on its lower 

 side. The $ genitalia appear to consist of two telescopic cylin- 

 drical shells, the inner one ending in two small (probably) retractile 

 lamellae. Legt wholly black ; coxae with a little short black 

 pubescence ; hind femora with two rows of spines on underside, 

 an inner one of about a dozen and an outer one of a few only. 

 Hind tibiae with a row of reddish spines on underside (not at all 

 conspicuous), and 5 or 6 such spines at the tip on the underside 

 only ; fore tibise with some inconspicuous spines at tip, which 

 appear to be only the terminal ones of a row on the underside 

 nearly hidden by the thick though short black pubescence which 

 clothes all the tibiae ; a row of spines, including the apical Ones, is 

 .-ipparently present on the middle tibiae also, though certainly 



